LES MIS Director Tom Hooper Among DGA Nominees

The Directors Guild of America has released nominees for its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award, which will be presented at the 65th annual DGA Awards Dinner on February 2 at Hollywood & Highland. Tom Hooper, director of the blockbuster film LES MISERABLES, was among the nominees. Television nominations will be revealed by the Guild tomorrow.

Tom HooperLES MISERABLES(Universal Pictures)Mr. Hooper's Directorial Team:· Unit Production Manager: Patrick Schweitzer· First Assistant Director: Ben Howarth· Second Assistant Director: Harriet Worth· Second Second Assistant Director: Dan Channing WilliamsThis is Mr. Hooper's second DGA Feature Film Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The King's Speech (2010) and was previously nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Mini-Series for John Adams in 2008.

Steven SpielbergLincoln(DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox)Mr. Spielberg's Directorial Team:· Unit Production Manager: Susan McNamara· First Assistant Director: Adam Somner· Second Assistant Director: Ian Stone· Second Second Assistant Directors: Eric Lasko, Trevor TavaresThis is Mr. Spielberg's eleventh DGA Feature Film Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film three times for Saving Private Ryan (1998), Schindler's List (1993) and The Color Purple (1985). He was also nominated in this category for Munich (2005), Amistad (1997), Empire of the Sun (1987), E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Jaws (1975). Mr. Spielberg was honored with the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.